noli me tangeren.adj.

Brit.

/ˌnəʊlɪ mɪ ˈtan(d)ʒəri/,

/ˌnəʊlɪ meɪ ˈtan(d)ʒəreɪ/, U.S.

/ˌnoʊli ˌmi ˈtɑndʒəri/,

/ˌnoʊli ˌmeɪ ˈtɑndʒəreɪ/

Forms: Middle English–1500s noly me tangere, Middle English– noli me tangere, 1800s nolitangere, 1800s nollimy tangere. Also with capital initial(s).

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin noli me tangere.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin noli me tangere ‘do not touch me’, words spoken by Jesus to Mary Magdalene at the sepulchre (Vulgate, John 20:17; compare sense A. 5; c1200 in a British source in sense A. 1; 16th cent. or earlier in sense A. 3) < classical Latin nōlī , 2nd person singular imperative of nōlle to be unwilling (see nolle prosequi n.) + mē , accusative of 1st person singular personal pronoun (see me pron.¹) + tangere to touch (see tangent n.). Compare Middle French noli me tangere (c1300 in sense A. 1). With sense A. 3, compare touch-me-not n. and adj.In form nolitangere in sense A. 3 apparently after the specific epithet noli-tangere in the scientific Latin name of the yellow balsam (see quot. 1837 at sense A. 3). N.E.D. (1907) gives the pronunciation as (nō^u·ləi mī tæ·ndʒĕrĭ) /ˈnəʊlaɪ miː ˈtændʒərɪ/.

A. n.

1. Medicine. Any of various conditions causing persistent, spreading ulceration of the skin and underlying tissue, esp. of the face; an instance or case of such a condition. Also figurative. Now historical.Many cases of noli-me-tangere were probably caused by basal cell carcinoma (rodent ulcer) or squamous cell carcinoma.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > lupus

noli me tangerea1398

touch-me-notc1450

wolf1559

lupus1583

lupus erythematosus1852

lupus vulgaris1852

butterfly lupus1879

minimus1886

SLE1958

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 98 Noli me tangere is a Cancry posteme in þe face, and freteþ litil & litil.

a1450 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Caius 336/725) (1970) 27 (MED) Of vlceris of þe face, in which schal be tretid of Noli me tangere.

c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 113 (MED) Þe poudre maad of stercus humani & brent salt mortifieþ þe Cankre and Noli me tangere.

1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Biij The same water heleth that evyll soore named noly me tangere.

1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes ii. f. 42^v An vlcer..comming of a Noli-me-tangere, whiche began to take roote alredy at the gristles of the Nose.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 200 The very ill-fauoured Polype and Noli-me-tangere in the nosthrils, the juice of this root doth cvre and heale wonderfully.

1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 6 Some of his arguments are mortally sick of the Polypus or Noli me tangere; I shall not meddle with them.

1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 184 Head-aches are frequent, Palsies, Dropsies, Worms, Noli-me-tangeres.

1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 144 A Spoonful of it..cures the Noli me tangere, all Shankers.

1762 R. Guy Pract. Observ. Cancers 114 Lydia Goldsbury came with an obstinate Noli me tangere on the Nose.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 126 She's a noli me tangere in my flesh, which I cannot bear to be touched or tampered with.

1825 Lancet 15 Jan. 38/1 It is what is called Noli me tangere, or herpes exedens nasi. The sore goes on to the destruction of the parts, till the patient dies.

1834 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. III. 169/1 The terms lupus and noli me tangere are synonymous in British medicine, and have always signified the same thing since they have been used in any definite sense.

1875 E. M. Hale Materia Medica (ed. 4) II. 366 Dr. Small reports a cure of ‘noli me tangere on the nose’.

1974 Brit. Jrnl. Plastic Surg. 27 144 (title) From noli-me-tangere to rodent ulcer: the recognition of basal cell carcinoma.

2. A person who or thing which must not be touched or interfered with.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] > prohibition against interference > one who or that which so prohibited

noli me tangerec1450

noli-me-tangeretarian1846

c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 134 (MED) I am prikkinge and hateful impacient and ryght bisy..I hatte Noli me tangere.

c1475 Mankind (1969) 512 (MED) I xall spare Master Woode of Fullburn; He ys a noli me tangere.

1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. A4 He was wont to say of them that they were of the Tribe of Dan, and were Noli me tangere, Implying that they were not to be contested with.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 166 Sure Learning was no such Noli me tangere, in the Apostles account.

1692 T. Watson Body Pract. Divinity (1858) 460 Herod could not brook to have his incest meddled with—that was a noli me tangere.

1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 15 [They] rather chuse to impoverish the melody, by making a fourth of the key a noli me tangere, than admit this innovation.

1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. iii. 21 Mr. Wormwood, the noli-me-tangere of literary lions—an author who sowed his conversation..with..thorns.

1876 Appletons' Jrnl. 8 Apr. 457/3 Frau von Schroberg was the acknowledged object of the admiration of the elderly sovereign..and therefore a noli me tangere to the admiring masculine sex.

1915 Science 41 887/2 The head, the chest, the abdomen were ticketed ‘Noli me tangere’ except in the rare cases where operation was absolutely unavoidable.

1936 Sci. Monthly 42 132/1 The gall bladder is no longer the noli me tangere that it was in the days of my youth.

1979 Amer. Lit. 51 26 To Captain Boomer..he [sc. the white whale] has become a noli me tangere.

3. Any of several plants whose seed capsules or fruits burst open at a touch when ripe and forcibly eject the seeds, esp. the yellow balsam, Impatiens noli-tangere (family Balsaminaceae), and the squirting cucumber, Ecballium elaterium (family Cucurbitaceae) (cf. touch-me-not n. 2a, 2b). Also: the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > balsam and allied flowers

noli me tangere1563

balsam apple1578

touch-me-not1659

eagle-flower1718

balsam1736

quick-in-hand1744

Capuchin1756

balsamine1785

impatiens1785

jewelweed1817

snap-weed1823

lady's slipper1836

busy Lizzie1938

sultana1938

patient Lucy1940

policeman's helmet1950

1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 35^v And also, Noli me tangere all diseases brede of fleame and colde humours it healeth them.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. 76 There is yet an other herbe founde called Noli me tangere, the whiche also is reduced and brought vnder the kindes of Mercury.

1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. xviii. 260 The nature of this plant [sc. the Impatient Lady-smocke] is such that if you touch but the cods when the seed is ripe, though you do it neuer so gently, yet will the seeds fly all abroad with violence, as disdaining to be touched: whence they vsually call it Noli me tangere.

1704 Coll. Voy. & Trav. III. 824/2 There grows another Tree in Ceylon like our Noli me tangere.

1754 Dict. Art & Sci. III. 2221/1 Noli me tangere, among botanists, the sensitive plant, the same with mimosa.

1837 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. III. 323/2 Nolitangere is the Impatiens nolitangere of Linnæus, an English annual, remarkable for the elastic power of its capsules, which, when touched, discharge the seeds with considerable force.

1850 Imperial Dict. Noli-me-tangere, a plant of the genus Momordica, or Ecbalium, one species of which is called the..spurting cucumber.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 792/1 Nolitangere, the Touch-me-not, Impatiens Noli-tangere.

1916 Amer. Midland Naturalist 4 473 Balsamina altera... It was usually called Noli-me-tangere, and Impatiens.

1991 MLN 106 110 The ‘mimosa pudica’ is also known as the ‘noli me tangere’.

4. A warning or prohibition against meddling or interference.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] > prohibition against interference

noli me tangere1634

1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. vi. 22 The Porcupine..stands upon his guard and proclaimes a Noli me tangere, to man and beast.

1641 H. Maisterson Serm. 18 The forbidden fruit, upon which God hath set a Noli me tangere.

1792 C. Smith Desmond II. 129 Every attempt at redress is silenced by the noli-me-tangere, which our constitution has been made to say.

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. x. 236 Every dish, as it is brought in, carrying a ‘noli me tangere’ on the face of it.

1817 Ld. Byron Let. 15 Nov. (1976) V. 272 I used to think that I was a good deal of an author in amour propre and ‘noli me tangere’.

1871 A. Trollope Sir Harry Hotspur i. 2 He was a proud man..showing his pride chiefly by a certain impalpable noli me tangere, which just sufficed to make itself felt and obeyed at the first approach of any personal freedom.

1998 J. Barnes England, England (1999) 121 The encirclement [of the crinoline]..denoting..the noli me tangere of such women.

5. A painting of a type representing the appearance of Jesus to Mary Magdalene at the sepulchre (John 20:17).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > religious painting > picture by subject

majestyc1450

the Visitation (of our Lady)1498

Our Lady Piety1533

annunciation1556

nativity1646

Pietàc1660

noli me tangerea1684

virgina1684

glory1708

flagellation1728

scourging1757

Mater Dolorosa1800

crucifixion1841

hortus conclusus1852

Hodegetria1880

Gethsemane1901

anastasis1995

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1680 (1955) IV. 216 The Noli me tangere of our B: Saviour to M: Magdalen, after his Resurrection, of Hans Holbeins.

1722 J. Richardson Acct. Statues Italy 173 Noli me tangere..is a Magnificent Picture.

1800 J. Dallaway Anecd. Arts Eng. 481 The ‘noli me tangere’ at All Souls College was painted by Raffaelle.

1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun II. xii. 133 Half of the other pictures are Magdalens,..Noli-me-tangeres.

1934 Burlington Mag. July 4/1 The Noli Me Tangere in the National Gallery, traditionally ascribed to Titian.

1991 J. Kirkup Poet could not but be Gay (BNC) 199 We..wrote some poems about the pictures there, including..Titian's Christ Appearing to the Magdalen—Noli me Tangere.

B. adj. (attributive).

Relating to or suggesting prohibition, dislike, or fear of being touched; shrinking from contact; aloof.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [adjective] > that may not be interfered with

untouchable1607

noli me tangere1790

1790 Pennsylvania Gaz. 14 July They were not permitted to alter a comma in this noli me tangere bill: which is now before the House, and is made the order of this day.

1822 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater 28 A sort of noli me tangere manner, nervously apprehensive of too familiar approach.

1842 C. Whitehead Richard Savage (1845) II. iv. 221 A sort of noli me tangere sensitiveness.

1877 C. Reade Woman-hater x A trick of putting on noli me tangere faces among strangers.

1935 New Statesman 8 June 857/1 The old noli-me-tangere John Bull has disappeared, and his place has been taken by the all-enduring Little Man.

1975 V. Canning Kingsford Mark i. 10 You still look beautiful in your own noli me tangere way.

1984 R. Silverberg Not our Brother in Conglomeroid Cocktail Party 224 She radiated an offputting vibe, a noli-me-tangere sort of thing, that was unmistakable and made any approach from him inappropriate.

2001 Sarasota (Florida) Herald-Tribune (Nexis) 29 Sept. a21 These indentured souls, with tight, white social smiles set into their glossy and immobile, noli-me-tangere skulls.

Derivatives

noli-me-tangereˈtarian n. Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] > prohibition against interference > one who or that which so prohibited

noli me tangerec1450

noli-me-tangeretarian1846

1846 W. S. Landor Citation & Exam. Shakespere in Wks. (1853) II. 294/1 If a dean is not on his stilts,..he stands on his own ground: he is a noli-me-tangeretarian.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	noli me tangere
释义	noli me tangeren.adj. Brit. /ˌnəʊlɪ mɪ ˈtan(d)ʒəri/, /ˌnəʊlɪ meɪ ˈtan(d)ʒəreɪ/, U.S. /ˌnoʊli ˌmi ˈtɑndʒəri/, /ˌnoʊli ˌmeɪ ˈtɑndʒəreɪ/ Forms: Middle English–1500s noly me tangere, Middle English– noli me tangere, 1800s nolitangere, 1800s nollimy tangere. Also with capital initial(s). Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin noli me tangere. Etymology: < post-classical Latin noli me tangere ‘do not touch me’, words spoken by Jesus to Mary Magdalene at the sepulchre (Vulgate, John 20:17; compare sense A. 5; c1200 in a British source in sense A. 1; 16th cent. or earlier in sense A. 3) < classical Latin nōlī , 2nd person singular imperative of nōlle to be unwilling (see nolle prosequi n.) + mē , accusative of 1st person singular personal pronoun (see me pron.¹) + tangere to touch (see tangent n.). Compare Middle French noli me tangere (c1300 in sense A. 1). With sense A. 3, compare touch-me-not n. and adj.In form nolitangere in sense A. 3 apparently after the specific epithet noli-tangere in the scientific Latin name of the yellow balsam (see quot. 1837 at sense A. 3). N.E.D. (1907) gives the pronunciation as (nō^u·ləi mī tæ·ndʒĕrĭ) /ˈnəʊlaɪ miː ˈtændʒərɪ/. A. n. 1. Medicine. Any of various conditions causing persistent, spreading ulceration of the skin and underlying tissue, esp. of the face; an instance or case of such a condition. Also figurative. Now historical.Many cases of noli-me-tangere were probably caused by basal cell carcinoma (rodent ulcer) or squamous cell carcinoma. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > lupus noli me tangerea1398 touch-me-notc1450 wolf1559 lupus1583 lupus erythematosus1852 lupus vulgaris1852 butterfly lupus1879 minimus1886 SLE1958 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 98 Noli me tangere is a Cancry posteme in þe face, and freteþ litil & litil. a1450 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Caius 336/725) (1970) 27 (MED) Of vlceris of þe face, in which schal be tretid of Noli me tangere. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 113 (MED) Þe poudre maad of stercus humani & brent salt mortifieþ þe Cankre and Noli me tangere. 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Biij The same water heleth that evyll soore named noly me tangere. 1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes ii. f. 42^v An vlcer..comming of a Noli-me-tangere, whiche began to take roote alredy at the gristles of the Nose. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 200 The very ill-fauoured Polype and Noli-me-tangere in the nosthrils, the juice of this root doth cvre and heale wonderfully. 1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 6 Some of his arguments are mortally sick of the Polypus or Noli me tangere; I shall not meddle with them. 1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 184 Head-aches are frequent, Palsies, Dropsies, Worms, Noli-me-tangeres. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 144 A Spoonful of it..cures the Noli me tangere, all Shankers. 1762 R. Guy Pract. Observ. Cancers 114 Lydia Goldsbury came with an obstinate Noli me tangere on the Nose. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 126 She's a noli me tangere in my flesh, which I cannot bear to be touched or tampered with. 1825 Lancet 15 Jan. 38/1 It is what is called Noli me tangere, or herpes exedens nasi. The sore goes on to the destruction of the parts, till the patient dies. 1834 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. III. 169/1 The terms lupus and noli me tangere are synonymous in British medicine, and have always signified the same thing since they have been used in any definite sense. 1875 E. M. Hale Materia Medica (ed. 4) II. 366 Dr. Small reports a cure of ‘noli me tangere on the nose’. 1974 Brit. Jrnl. Plastic Surg. 27 144 (title) From noli-me-tangere to rodent ulcer: the recognition of basal cell carcinoma. 2. A person who or thing which must not be touched or interfered with. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] > prohibition against interference > one who or that which so prohibited noli me tangerec1450 noli-me-tangeretarian1846 c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 134 (MED) I am prikkinge and hateful impacient and ryght bisy..I hatte Noli me tangere. c1475 Mankind (1969) 512 (MED) I xall spare Master Woode of Fullburn; He ys a noli me tangere. 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. A4 He was wont to say of them that they were of the Tribe of Dan, and were Noli me tangere, Implying that they were not to be contested with. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 166 Sure Learning was no such Noli me tangere, in the Apostles account. 1692 T. Watson Body Pract. Divinity (1858) 460 Herod could not brook to have his incest meddled with—that was a noli me tangere. 1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 15 [They] rather chuse to impoverish the melody, by making a fourth of the key a noli me tangere, than admit this innovation. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. iii. 21 Mr. Wormwood, the noli-me-tangere of literary lions—an author who sowed his conversation..with..thorns. 1876 Appletons' Jrnl. 8 Apr. 457/3 Frau von Schroberg was the acknowledged object of the admiration of the elderly sovereign..and therefore a noli me tangere to the admiring masculine sex. 1915 Science 41 887/2 The head, the chest, the abdomen were ticketed ‘Noli me tangere’ except in the rare cases where operation was absolutely unavoidable. 1936 Sci. Monthly 42 132/1 The gall bladder is no longer the noli me tangere that it was in the days of my youth. 1979 Amer. Lit. 51 26 To Captain Boomer..he [sc. the white whale] has become a noli me tangere. 3. Any of several plants whose seed capsules or fruits burst open at a touch when ripe and forcibly eject the seeds, esp. the yellow balsam, Impatiens noli-tangere (family Balsaminaceae), and the squirting cucumber, Ecballium elaterium (family Cucurbitaceae) (cf. touch-me-not n. 2a, 2b). Also: the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > balsam and allied flowers noli me tangere1563 balsam apple1578 touch-me-not1659 eagle-flower1718 balsam1736 quick-in-hand1744 Capuchin1756 balsamine1785 impatiens1785 jewelweed1817 snap-weed1823 lady's slipper1836 busy Lizzie1938 sultana1938 patient Lucy1940 policeman's helmet1950 1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 35^v And also, Noli me tangere all diseases brede of fleame and colde humours it healeth them. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. 76 There is yet an other herbe founde called Noli me tangere, the whiche also is reduced and brought vnder the kindes of Mercury. 1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. xviii. 260 The nature of this plant [sc. the Impatient Lady-smocke] is such that if you touch but the cods when the seed is ripe, though you do it neuer so gently, yet will the seeds fly all abroad with violence, as disdaining to be touched: whence they vsually call it Noli me tangere. 1704 Coll. Voy. & Trav. III. 824/2 There grows another Tree in Ceylon like our Noli me tangere. 1754 Dict. Art & Sci. III. 2221/1 Noli me tangere, among botanists, the sensitive plant, the same with mimosa. 1837 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. III. 323/2 Nolitangere is the Impatiens nolitangere of Linnæus, an English annual, remarkable for the elastic power of its capsules, which, when touched, discharge the seeds with considerable force. 1850 Imperial Dict. Noli-me-tangere, a plant of the genus Momordica, or Ecbalium, one species of which is called the..spurting cucumber. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 792/1 Nolitangere, the Touch-me-not, Impatiens Noli-tangere. 1916 Amer. Midland Naturalist 4 473 Balsamina altera... It was usually called Noli-me-tangere, and Impatiens. 1991 MLN 106 110 The ‘mimosa pudica’ is also known as the ‘noli me tangere’. 4. A warning or prohibition against meddling or interference. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] > prohibition against interference noli me tangere1634 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. vi. 22 The Porcupine..stands upon his guard and proclaimes a Noli me tangere, to man and beast. 1641 H. Maisterson Serm. 18 The forbidden fruit, upon which God hath set a Noli me tangere. 1792 C. Smith Desmond II. 129 Every attempt at redress is silenced by the noli-me-tangere, which our constitution has been made to say. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. x. 236 Every dish, as it is brought in, carrying a ‘noli me tangere’ on the face of it. 1817 Ld. Byron Let. 15 Nov. (1976) V. 272 I used to think that I was a good deal of an author in amour propre and ‘noli me tangere’. 1871 A. Trollope Sir Harry Hotspur i. 2 He was a proud man..showing his pride chiefly by a certain impalpable noli me tangere, which just sufficed to make itself felt and obeyed at the first approach of any personal freedom. 1998 J. Barnes England, England (1999) 121 The encirclement [of the crinoline]..denoting..the noli me tangere of such women. 5. A painting of a type representing the appearance of Jesus to Mary Magdalene at the sepulchre (John 20:17). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > religious painting > picture by subject majestyc1450 the Visitation (of our Lady)1498 Our Lady Piety1533 annunciation1556 nativity1646 Pietàc1660 noli me tangerea1684 virgina1684 glory1708 flagellation1728 scourging1757 Mater Dolorosa1800 crucifixion1841 hortus conclusus1852 Hodegetria1880 Gethsemane1901 anastasis1995 a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1680 (1955) IV. 216 The Noli me tangere of our B: Saviour to M: Magdalen, after his Resurrection, of Hans Holbeins. 1722 J. Richardson Acct. Statues Italy 173 Noli me tangere..is a Magnificent Picture. 1800 J. Dallaway Anecd. Arts Eng. 481 The ‘noli me tangere’ at All Souls College was painted by Raffaelle. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun II. xii. 133 Half of the other pictures are Magdalens,..Noli-me-tangeres. 1934 Burlington Mag. July 4/1 The Noli Me Tangere in the National Gallery, traditionally ascribed to Titian. 1991 J. Kirkup Poet could not but be Gay (BNC) 199 We..wrote some poems about the pictures there, including..Titian's Christ Appearing to the Magdalen—Noli me Tangere. B. adj. (attributive). Relating to or suggesting prohibition, dislike, or fear of being touched; shrinking from contact; aloof. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [adjective] > that may not be interfered with untouchable1607 noli me tangere1790 1790 Pennsylvania Gaz. 14 July They were not permitted to alter a comma in this noli me tangere bill: which is now before the House, and is made the order of this day. 1822 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater 28 A sort of noli me tangere manner, nervously apprehensive of too familiar approach. 1842 C. Whitehead Richard Savage (1845) II. iv. 221 A sort of noli me tangere sensitiveness. 1877 C. Reade Woman-hater x A trick of putting on noli me tangere faces among strangers. 1935 New Statesman 8 June 857/1 The old noli-me-tangere John Bull has disappeared, and his place has been taken by the all-enduring Little Man. 1975 V. Canning Kingsford Mark i. 10 You still look beautiful in your own noli me tangere way. 1984 R. Silverberg Not our Brother in Conglomeroid Cocktail Party 224 She radiated an offputting vibe, a noli-me-tangere sort of thing, that was unmistakable and made any approach from him inappropriate. 2001 Sarasota (Florida) Herald-Tribune (Nexis) 29 Sept. a21 These indentured souls, with tight, white social smiles set into their glossy and immobile, noli-me-tangere skulls. Derivatives noli-me-tangereˈtarian n. Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] > prohibition against interference > one who or that which so prohibited noli me tangerec1450 noli-me-tangeretarian1846 1846 W. S. Landor Citation & Exam. Shakespere in Wks. (1853) II. 294/1 If a dean is not on his stilts,..he stands on his own ground: he is a noli-me-tangeretarian. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1398
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